[Re-alpine-devel] Build "configure" Reported Missing "factory.pem"

[M.Ross <mro...@vf...>]

Build "configure" Reported Missing "factory.pem"

HW: Lenovo R60e 06573AU Laptop
OS: Ubuntu v12.04.3 LTS (newly installed).
SW: recent download of Re-Alpine v2.03 from:
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/re-alpine/files/re-alpine-2.03.tar.bz2/download>

I don't know where "factory.pem" is supposed to be or come from, it is 
called for by "configure", but I know it was not on this drive until I 
put it there! - I searched! - not part of Ubuntu issue! - not 
obviously a ReAlpine issue! Only an archived UW mailing list thread 
refs & explains part of it, as I can find.

See:
Jean-Noel BOUVIER Jean-Noel.Bouvier at imag.fr
Wed Mar 26 07:19:30 PDT 2008
<http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/alpine-info/2008-March/000498.html>

 From a plain "configure" run I got:

-snip-
checking for sigprocmask... yes
checking for library containing syslog... none required
configure: * * * SSL file "/etc/ssl/certs/factory.pem" is missing.
configure: * * *   This might indicate that CA certs did not get properly
configure: * * *   installed.  If you get certificate validation failures
configure: * * *   in Alpine, this might be the reason for them.
configure: * * * TCL libraries could not be found.
configure: * * * WEB ALPINE COMPONENT WILL NOT BE BUILT.
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating m4/Makefile
-snip-

I always suffered some cert not found type warnings in Pine/Alpine 
installations for a few servers I visit, requiring ignore, 
no-val-cert, etc...

Is there a whitepaper explaining the requirements, design, source, or 
intent of this "factory.pem" file? other than the obvious, & do 
Pine/Alpine programmers notes of external requirements exist, or any ref?

Anyway, I made a link to /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt in that 
directory, & renamed the link "factory.pem" - it is done!

But I suffer make problems now with x509... - too many pkgs needed to 
build not loaded by the OS it seems.

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M.RossARR
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